Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death.

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace - not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

The U.S. has represented throughout its history a commitment to human rights and the law - shining a light on what happened at Abu Ghraib exposes our departure from this long-term commitment. It does not, however, excuse the atrocities carried about by Saddam Hussein and others.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

To look for truth in all the wrong and all the right places is the only excuse for living.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

Victim fall in love with excuses

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependant on what is wrong. But that is the addict's excuse, and we know that it will not do.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.